Craven Cottage Newsround

Our missing friend scored twice for the reserves in a secret friendly against Brentford (3-1 win).  Bouazza got the other.

I’ve mentioned Crockatt & Powell (independent booksellers) a few times on here, not least because they published the Fulham Review last year.  Matthew (Crockatt) is a Fulham season ticket holder, and by the time next season comes around the fellas will have a new shop IN FULHAM.  So if you’re bored before games you can just wander up there and spend some money on fine books.

Anyway, their current shop, near to Waterloo, is featured in a new film called Happy-Go-Lucky.

You can see the trailer on the C&P blog here, they go into the shop and everything.  I just thought it was worth sharing.  It’s extremely weird to see but very exciting too.  Anyway, if you like books and live in or near London, you should go there.

It’s nice to see Roy smiling.   Nice to see Sir Bobby at all.

Clubcall, which once upon a time was quite reputable (I think) says that Chris Coleman wants Carlos Bocanegra at Coventry.

Local paper up North says Sunderland want Jimmy Bullard.  Riiight.  £2.5 million?   Championship players cost us lots last year, I can’t see why that should work in reverse if we’re selling.  And anyway, to Sunderland?   I’ve said it before, but the rewards for promotion are about £40 million.  Bullard would be central to that promotion chase*, so unless he refuses to play for Fulham, we simply shouldn’t be selling.  He’s worth more to us on the pitch.

In response to a post on TiFF by Kilburn White.

And to me, our current badge is completely at odds with the sense of history and locality that we had with the old coat of arms – a badge that not only looked cracking, but which also actually said the word Fulham upon it. Straight away it looked like an English club’s badge, and it looked like a club with history. The current badge wouldn’t look out of place on a Slovakian 4th division side’s shirt. It says nothing about Fulham. There’s no story to it. I actually like the simplicity of this year’s kits, and they’d look even better with the old badge.

Can’t disagree with any of that.